Billy Elliot

In 1984, Billy Elliot, an 11-year-old from the fictional Everington in County Durham, England, loves to dance and has hopes of becoming a professional ballet dancer. Billy lives with his widowed father, Jackie, and older brother, Tony, both coal miners out on strike (the latter being the union delegate). His maternal grandmother lives with them; she has Alzheimer's disease and had once aspired to be a professional dancer.

Billy's father sends him to the gym to learn boxing, but Billy dislikes the sport. He happens to see a ballet class that is using the gym while their usual basement studio is being used temporarily as a soup kitchen for the striking miners. Unbeknownst to Jackie, Billy joins the ballet class. When Jackie discovers this, he forbids Billy to take any more ballet classes. But, passionate about dancing, he secretly continues his lessons with the help of his dance teacher, Sandra Wilkinson.

Sandra believes that Billy is talented enough to study at the Royal Ballet School in London, but due to Tony's arrest during a clash between police and striking miners, Billy misses the audition. Sandra tells Jackie about the missed opportunity but, fearing that Billy will be considered to be gay, both Jackie and Tony are outraged at the prospect of him becoming a professional ballet dancer.

Over Christmas, Billy learns his best friend, Michael, is gay. Billy is supportive of his friend. Later, Jackie catches Billy and Michael dancing in the gym, and realizes his son is truly passionate. Although stunned at first, he resolves to do whatever it takes to help Billy attain his dream. Sandra tries to persuade Jackie to let her pay for the audition, but he replies that Billy is his son and he does not need charity. Jackie attempts to cross the picket line to pay for the trip to London, but Tony stops him. Instead, his fellow miners and the neighbourhood raise some money, and Jackie pawns Billy's mother's jewellery to cover the cost, and Jackie takes him to London to audition.

Although very nervous, Billy performs well. He punches another boy in frustration at the audition, and fears that he has ruined his chances. He is rebuked by the review board and, when asked what it feels like when he is dancing, struggles for words. He says that it is "like electricity". Seemingly rejected, Billy returns home with his father. Sometime later, the Royal Ballet School sends him a letter of acceptance, coinciding with the end of the miners' strike, and Billy leaves home to study in London.

In 1998, 25-year-old Billy performs as the Swan in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake with Jackie, Tony, and Michael watching from the audience. As Billy takes the stage, his father is overcome with emotion while the other dancers watch from the wings.

{{castlist|* Jamie Bell as Billy Elliot

• Adam Cooper as Billy aged 25
• Julie Walters as Sandra Wilkinson
• Gary Lewis as Jackie Elliot
• Jamie Draven as Tony Elliot
• Jean Heywood as Grandma
• Stuart Wells as Michael Caffrey
• Merryn Owen as Michael aged 25
• Nicola Blackwell as Debbie Wilkinson
• Colin Maclachlan as Tom Wilkinson
• Mike Elliott as George Watson
• Billy Fane as Mr Braithwaite
• Janine Birkett as Jenny Elliot
• Charlie Hardwick as Sheila Briggs
• Matthew James Thomas as Simon
• Stephen Mangan as Dr Crane
• Patrick Malahide as Royal Ballet School principal}}

Lee Hall developed Billy Elliot from his play Dancer, which premiered as a rehearsed reading in 1998 at the Live Theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne.{{cite news |title=Lee Hall interview: Why Lee will always love Live Theatre |date=17 June 2014 |url=http://www.thejournal.co.uk/culture/culture-news/lee-hall-interview-lee-always-7279467 |work=The Journal |access-date=6 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106235237/http://www.thejournal.co.uk/culture/culture-news/lee-hall-interview-lee-always-7279467 |archive-date=6 January 2015 |url-status=dead}} He was heavily influenced by photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's book Step by Step, about a dancing school in nearby North Shields. Writing in 2009, Hall said that "almost every frame of Billy Elliot was influenced by Step by Step [...] as every member of the design team carried around their own copy."{{cite book |title=Byker Revisited |first=Sirkka-Liisa |last=Konttinen |page=vi |publisher=Northumbria Press |isbn=978-1904794424 |year=2009}}

Hall met with director Stephen Daldry, who was working at the Royal Court Theatre at the time. At first, Daldry was not convinced with the script, but said, "I liked the emotional honesty of Billy Elliot. Also Lee writes brilliant kids. And there's a series of themes in it I rather enjoyed: Grief; finding means of self-identification through some sort of creative act, in this case dance; and the miner's strike itself."{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2000/10/interview-stephen-daldry-dances-to-success-with-billy-elliot-81337/|title=Interview: Stephen Daldry Dances to Success with "Billy Elliot"|date=2000-10-17|website=IndieWire|language=en|access-date=2020-01-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102200205/https://www.indiewire.com/2000/10/interview-stephen-daldry-dances-to-success-with-billy-elliot-81337/|archive-date=2 January 2020|url-status=live}} Working Title Films approached Daldry to become director and he accepted the offer. The BBC financed the project.{{Cite web|url=http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr247/mitchell.htm|title=Interview: Lee Hall, screenwriter of Billy Elliot|website=pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk|access-date=2020-01-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704151046/http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr247/mitchell.htm|archive-date=4 July 2019|url-status=dead}}

Thousands of boys were considered for the lead role. The producers were looking for a boy in a specific geographical area with a dance background. Jamie Bell had about seven auditions in total before eventually in mid-1999, it was announced that he would play the lead role in the film. Peter Darling, the film's choreographer, worked with Bell for "eight hours a day for three months, finding out what drove him as a dancer." Julie Walters accepted the role of Sandra Wilkinson. Walters called the script "moving", explaining, "It was a diamond in the sand [...] I loved the character, and the fact that she was disappointed on every level possible. She was so grim and jaded. Her relationship with the boy was so unusual".{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/may/14/features|title=Julie Walters: An actress in her prime|last=Mottram|first=James|date=2001-05-14|work=The Guardian|access-date=2020-01-02|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102200204/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/may/14/features|archive-date=2 January 2020|url-status=live}}

In preparation for filming, Gary Lewis met with miners which he said was beneficial.{{Cite web|url=http://www.erasingclouds.com/02lewis.html|title=The Good Times: films, awards and Italy. An interview with actor Gary Lewis.|last=Battista|first=Anna|date=2001|website=www.erasingclouds.com|access-date=2020-04-03}} Lewis stated that his own personal experience of the miners' strike made the role enjoyable. "My family and I were very active in supporting the miners: I stood in picket lines, I raised money for the miners and I was involved in the whole campaign to stop [...] closing the pits. Basically, it was the state that launched a complete attack on a section of the work force, a section of the working class. Lots of people responded with solidarity and that was a key element in the script: solidarity working at different levels, the collective solidarity, the economic solidarity."

File:Avon Street, Easington Colliery.jpg, were used for filming, where Andrew and Alnwick Streets once stood. |alt=Terraced homes on Avon Street|195x195px]]

Principal photography lasted seven weeks, beginning in August 1999.{{Cite web|url=http://cinema.com/articles/160/billy-elliot-production-notes.phtml|title=Billy Elliot : Production Notes|website=cinema.com|access-date=2020-04-03}} Most of the film, including the interior of the Elliot home at 5 Alnwick Street, was shot on location in the Easington Colliery area, with the producers using over 400 locals as extras.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/sep/28/billy-elliot-musical-easington-village-screening |title=Village shares its Billy Elliot stories at live screening of West End show |work=The Guardian |publisher=Guardian News and Media |date=28 September 2014 |access-date=9 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410072410/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/sep/28/billy-elliot-musical-easington-village-screening |archive-date=10 April 2018 |url-status=live }} The mining scenes were filmed at the Ellington and Lynemouth Colliery in Northumberland, with some filming in Dawdon, Middlesbrough and Newcastle upon Tyne.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/articles/2006/04/07/hollywood_on_tyne_billy_elliot_04_2006_feature.shtml|title=Feature: Billy Elliot|date=17 October 2006|work=BBC Tyne|publisher=BBC|access-date=6 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629123134/http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/articles/2006/04/07/hollywood_on_tyne_billy_elliot_04_2006_feature.shtml|archive-date=29 June 2011|url-status=live}} Andrew Street and Alnwick Street, where the characters live, were two of several streets demolished in 2003 after becoming derelict.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2386705.stm|title=Billy Elliott's house to be bulldozed|date=1 November 2002|website=BBC|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410074943/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2386705.stm|archive-date=10 April 2018|access-date=9 April 2018}} The cemetery scene was filmed at Lynemouth Cemetery.{{cite web |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Dying+for+someone+to+take+care+of+cemetery%3B+PLEA+FOR+LANDOWNERS+TO...-a0181664854 |title=Dying for someone to take care of cemetery; Plea for landowners to clean up overgrown graveyard |work=Evening Chronicle |publisher=Trinity Mirror |date=22 July 2008 |access-date=9 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410072235/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Dying+for+someone+to+take+care+of+cemetery%3B+PLEA+FOR+LANDOWNERS+TO...-a0181664854 |archive-date=10 April 2018 |url-status=live }} School scenes were filmed in Langley Park Primary School.{{Cite web|url=http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/b/Billy-Elliot.php|title=Filming Locations for Billy Elliot (2000)|website=The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations|access-date=2020-01-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101130142/http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/b/Billy-Elliot.php|archive-date=1 January 2020|url-status=live}} Other filming locations include the Green Drive Railway Viaduct in Seaham, Tees Transporter Bridge, New Wardour Castle and Theatre Royal in Haymarket.{{Cite web|url=https://www.reelstreets.com/films/billy-elliot/|title=Reelstreets {{!}} Billy Elliot|website=www.reelstreets.com|access-date=2020-01-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101130143/https://www.reelstreets.com/films/billy-elliot/|archive-date=1 January 2020|url-status=live}}

Daldry remarked in an interview: "The shooting schedule was a nightmare; we only had seven weeks. Kids can only work nine to five and you can't work Saturdays. And the kid had to dance the whole time. So it was tight." Producer Jon Finn spoke of the difficulties of seeking filming locations: "We didn't realise how hard it would be to find working pits."

{{Infobox album

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| genre = Punk rock, Glam rock, Pop, New wave

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Stephen Warbeck scored the incidental music for the film. Polydor Records released the soundtrack on 11 March 2002, which includes several well-known glam rock and punk songs from T. Rex and The Clash.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/billy-elliot-mr0001347394|title=Billy Elliot – Original Soundtrack {{!}} Release Info|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-12-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227160839/https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/billy-elliot-mr0001347394|archive-date=27 December 2019|url-status=live}} The soundtrack also contains pieces of dialogue from the film.

{{Track listing

| headline = Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

| title1 = Cosmic Dancer

| music1 = T. Rex

| length1 = 4:28

| title2 = Boys Play Football

| music2 = Jamie Bell & Gary Lewis

| length2 = 0:52

| title3 = Bang a Gong (Get It On)

| music3 = T. Rex

| length3 = 4:24

| title4 = Mother's Letter

| music4 = Jamie Bell & Julie Walters

| length4 = 0:40

| title5 = I Believe

| music5 = Stephen Gately

| length5 = 3:27

| title6 = Town Called Malice

| music6 = The Jam

| length6 = 2:53

| title7 = The Sun Will Come Out

| music7 = Jamie Bell, Nicole Blackwell & Julie Walters

| length7 = 0:50

| title8 = I Love to Boogie

| music8 = T. Rex

| length8 = 2:11

| title9 = Burning Up

| music9 = Eagle-Eye Cherry

| length9 = 4:14

| title10 = Royal Ballet School

| music10 = Jamie Bell & Julie Walters

| length10 = 1:11

| title11 = London Calling

| music11 = The Clash

| length11 = 3:20

| title12 = Children of the Revolution

| music12 = T. Rex

| length12 = 4:44

| title13 = Audition Panel

| music13 = Jamie Bell & Barbara Leigh Hunt

| length13 = 0:33

| title14 = Shout to the Top!

| music14 = The Style Council

| length14 = 4:14

| title15 = Walls Come Tumbling Down!

| music15 = The Style Council

| length15 = 3:21

| title16 = Ride a White Swan

| music16 = T. Rex

| length16 = 2:14

| title17 = Cosmic Dancer (Reprise)

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Billy Elliot premiered on 19 May at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival under the title Dancer. It was later decided to re-title the film Billy Elliot to avoid confusion with Dancer in the Dark, another film at Cannes that year. Billy Elliot was theatrically released on 29 September 2000 in the United Kingdom by Universal Pictures through United International Pictures. In the United States, Universal Focus released the film on 13 October 2000. Against expectations, the film grossed $109,280,263 worldwide, including $24 million in the United Kingdom and $22 million in the United States and Canada.{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0249462/?ref_=bo_se_r_1|title=Billy Elliot|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=2019-12-25}}{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|page=32|title=U.K.'s Top 10 in 2000|date=February 19, 2001|edition=AFM 2001: Film Market Preview}} Universal Home Entertainment released Billy Elliot on VHS on 20 April 2001, and on Blu-ray on 10 January 2012. The Blu-ray includes a short documentary of the film's production.{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Billy-Elliot|title=Billy Elliot (2000) – Financial Information|website=The Numbers|access-date=2020-04-03}}{{Cite web|title=Billy Elliot Blu-ray|url=https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Billy-Elliot-Blu-ray/33802/|website=blu-ray.com|access-date=2020-04-03}}

File:Jamie Bell by Gage Skidmore.jpg (pictured in 2015) received acclaim for his performance as Billy.|216x216px]]

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 85% based on 119 critic reviews, with an average rating of 7.30/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Billy Elliot is a charming movie that can evoke both laughter and tears."{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/billy_elliot|title=Billy Elliot (2000)|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127040601/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/billy_elliot/|archive-date=27 November 2017|access-date=9 August 2021}} At Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 74 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "generally favourable reviews".{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/billy-elliot|title=Billy Elliot Reviews|publisher=Metacritic|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180505230815/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/billy-elliot|archive-date=5 May 2018|access-date=9 April 2018}} Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinemascore.com/|title=CinemaScore|publisher=CinemaScore|language=en-US|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102130540/https://www.cinemascore.com/|archive-date=2 January 2018|access-date=2020-01-02}} (Type 'Billy Elliot' in the search box.)

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars, calling the film "as much parable and fantasy as it is realistic". He said Bell's performance was "engaging", Lewis was "convincing" and Walters was "spirited and colourful".{{cite web |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/billy-elliot-2000/ |title=Billy Elliot |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |work=RogerEbert.com |publisher=Ebert Digital LLC |access-date=9 April 2018 |date=13 October 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227212916/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/billy-elliot-2000 |archive-date=27 December 2017 |url-status=live }} Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian praised the film saying, "This is a film with a lot of charm, a lot of humour and a lot of heart. Daldry's direction and the screenplay by Lee Hall distinguish themselves further in the discreet, intelligent way ... Billy Elliot has a freshness that makes it a pleasure to watch; it's a very emphatic success".{{Cite news|date=2000-09-29|title=Billy Elliot|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/sep/29/1|url-status=live|access-date=2019-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229004813/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/sep/29/1|archive-date=29 December 2019|issn=0261-3077}} David Rooney of Variety also praised the cast, writing, "Relationships between all the characters are well observed—the father and his sons, the two brothers, and Billy and his grandmother, his friend Michael and jaded Mrs. Wilkinson—all of them yielding sweet, unforced feel-good moments". Rooney also praised the cinematography, visuals and soundtrack in showing Billy's rebelliousness.{{Cite web|last=Rooney|first=David|date=2000-05-22|title=Billy Elliot|url=https://variety.com/2000/film/reviews/billy-elliot-4-1200462157/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191226180206/https://variety.com/2000/film/reviews/billy-elliot-4-1200462157/|archive-date=26 December 2019|access-date=2019-12-26|website=Variety|language=en}} Charlotte O'Sullivan of The Independent wrote the cast are "near perfect", adding the film is "as raw a slice of escapism as you could wish for".{{Cite web|last=O'Sullivan|first=Charlotte|date=2008-11-21|title=First Impressions: Billy Elliot (2000)|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/first-impressions-billy-elliot-2000-1027341.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102223256/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/first-impressions-billy-elliot-2000-1027341.html|archive-date=2 January 2020|access-date=2020-01-02|website=The Independent|language=en}} William Gallagher from the BBC gave the film five out of five stars, writing, "It's a simple tale but one that is extremely well told and acted. Fittingly for a story about dance, it doesn't put a foot wrong and is engrossing, funny, very sad, very moving and very uplifting."{{Cite web|last=Gallagher|first=William|date=2000-10-11|title=BBC – Films – Billy Elliot|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2000/09/11/billy_elliot_review.shtml|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201015718/http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2000/09/11/billy_elliot_review.shtml|archive-date=1 December 2017|access-date=2020-01-02|website=BBC}}

Some critics gave a mixed response. Timeout magazine believes that "Daldry overuses the dance as a metaphor for escape and frustration, and choreographer Peter Darling's grandstanding ballet numbers sit a little uneasily, given the realist comedy pitch".{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/billy-elliot|title=Billy Elliot|website=Time Out London|date=10 September 2012 |language=en|access-date=2019-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190707225240/https://www.timeout.com/london/film/billy-elliot|archive-date=7 July 2019|url-status=live}} A. O. Scott of The New York Times notes that there were "patches of thinness and predictability", and that "the first half seems to acknowledge its own triteness". However, he compliments the pacing of the scenes and the actors who "inhabit their roles like second-hand suits".{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/13/movies/film-review-escaping-a-miner-s-life-for-a-career-in-ballet.html|title=Film Review; Escaping a Miner's Life For a Career in Ballet|last=Scott|first=A. O.|author-link=A.O. Scott|date=2000-10-13|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-12-26|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191226180206/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/13/movies/film-review-escaping-a-miner-s-life-for-a-career-in-ballet.html|archive-date=26 December 2019|url-status=live}} Mark Holcomb, writing for IndieWire, took issue with the "odd, unsuccessful mix of theatrical whimsy and social realism", and a dance scene which he describes as a "cringe-inducing '80s-style music video routine".{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2000/10/review-mixed-steps-pleasing-and-predictable-billy-elliot-81347/|title=Review: Mixed Steps, Pleasing and Predictable "Billy Elliot"|last=Holcomb|first=Mark|date=2000-10-12|website=IndieWire|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102223244/https://www.indiewire.com/2000/10/review-mixed-steps-pleasing-and-predictable-billy-elliot-81347/|archive-date=2 January 2020|access-date=2020-01-02}}

Poverty and social class have been seen as major themes of the film. Author Rebecca Mahon observed the film has a realistic setting; the early scenes emphasising the miners' strike, the death of Billy's mother and the family's financial situation.{{Cite book|title=Billy Elliot|last=Mahon, Rebecca.|date=2003|publisher=Pascal Press|others=Daldry, Stephen.|isbn=1-74125-037-4|location=Glebe, NSW|pages=14|oclc=224040491}} Daldry adds, "It doesn't matter where you are in the world, people understand the idea that you're part of an industrial, working class group that is being discarded. And its question—of what happens to communities devastated by de-industrialisation and privatisation". In addition to social class, Daldry states that the film is about finding a voice—"someone trying to express himself or herself".{{Cite web|url=https://qz.com/1096401/director-stephen-daldry-on-billy-elliot-the-meaning-and-message-behind-the-films-most-memorable-scene/|title=Why Billy Elliot's most memorable scene still resonates across the world|last=Mohdin|first=Aamna|website=Quartz|date=6 October 2017 |language=en|access-date=2020-01-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103120809/https://qz.com/1096401/director-stephen-daldry-on-billy-elliot-the-meaning-and-message-behind-the-films-most-memorable-scene/|archive-date=3 January 2020|url-status=live}} Koller-Alonso writes that gender differences are expressed by showing girls attending ballet classes, while their male counterparts are having boxing lessons. Homosexuality, a taboo subject in the 1980s, as well as police brutality are depicted and explored in the film.{{Cite web|url=https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/england/london/articles/what-billy-elliot-taught-us-about-british-history/|title=What Billy Elliot Taught Us About British History|last=Koller-Alonso|first=Sara|website=Culture Trip|date=4 March 2016|access-date=2020-01-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103120811/https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/england/london/articles/what-billy-elliot-taught-us-about-british-history/|archive-date=3 January 2020|url-status=live}}

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After the film's release, English singer-songwriter Elton John collaborated with the film's screenwriter Lee Hall to produce a musical adaptation of the film, which premiered 31 March 2005 at the Victoria Palace Theatre on the West End.{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/musicals/a-bluecollar-tale-mines-rich-musical-seam-20100404-rlig.html|title=A blue-collar tale mines rich musical seam|last=Jones|first=Chris|date=2010-04-04|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en|access-date=2020-01-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102205048/https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/musicals/a-bluecollar-tale-mines-rich-musical-seam-20100404-rlig.html|archive-date=2 January 2020|url-status=live}} Many of the film's crew took part in the stage production, including director Stephen Daldry and choreographer Peter Darling. The musical received positive reviews and ran for over 4,000 performances before closing in April 2016.{{Cite news|url=https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/reviews/billy-elliot-victoria-palace-theatre-2005|title=Billy Elliot – Victoria Palace Theatre 2005|newspaper=London Theatre Guide|access-date=18 December 2016|date=11 May 2005|last=Brown|first=Peter|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101130136/https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/reviews/billy-elliot-victoria-palace-theatre-2005|archive-date=1 January 2020|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/35069692?client=safari|title=Billy Elliot musical dances out of West End|website=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=11 December 2015|access-date=9 April 2018}}

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The musical ran on Broadway from November 2008 to January 2012, and won ten Tony Awards in 2009, including Best Musical.{{cite web | url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/billy-elliot-the-musical-475107 |title=Billy Elliot: The Musical – Broadway Musical |website=Internet Broadway Database}}

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Category:2000 films

Category:2000 directorial debut films

Category:2000s coming-of-age comedy-drama films

Category:2000s dance films

Category:2000 independent films

Category:British LGBTQ-related films

Category:BAFTA winners (films)

Category:BBC Film films

Category:Best British Film BAFTA Award winners

Category:British coming-of-age comedy-drama films

Category:British dance films

Category:2000s English-language films

Category:2000 LGBTQ-related films

Category:Films about ballet

Category:Films about the labor movement

Category:Films adapted into plays

Category:Films directed by Stephen Daldry

Category:Films scored by Stephen Warbeck

Category:Films set in 1984

Category:Films set in 1985

Category:Films set in 1999

Category:Films set in County Durham

Category:Films shot in England

Category:Films shot in Northumberland

Category:Films shot in Yorkshire

Category:Films shot in North Yorkshire

Category:Films shot in Middlesbrough

Category:Films with screenplays by Lee Hall (playwright)

Category:Films set in mining communities

Category:StudioCanal films

Category:UK miners' strike (1984–1985)

Category:Working Title Films films

Category:Films about father–son relationships

Category:Films about grandparent–grandchild relationships

Category:2000s British films

Category:English-language comedy-drama films

Category:English-language independent films